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Val,<br>
Excuse me for jumping in here but I found the question about the
personal pronoun a bit intriguing. I have problems understanding a
name sign as I may not recognize it as one. Some sort of mark to
indicate it would help out - at least for me. <br>
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After considering a few shapes and positions, and figuring that Stephen
would probably prefer a single stroke, I had to wonder if a curved line
would work, similar to this but without the top line:<br>
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src="cid:part1.05000009.01030104@tampabay.rr.com"><br>
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A curved line that transitions to straight would be easy to make and is
similar to the movement used in the ASL for "introduction".<br>
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Bill<br>
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Valerie Sutton wrote:
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2. A horizontal line under a sign, when writing in vertical columns,
means a hypen - like this - so underlining your name, when you wrote
from left to right in SignWriter DOS did not hurt anything, because
when you write from right to left it didn't mean anything else because
a hyphen is vertical in that case, but now that you are writing down,
the horizontal line means something else...it means a hyphen...so you
need to find another way to mark a Proper Name when writing
vertically...I personally see no need to mark a Proper Name because I
can see that it is a Sign Name pretty easily without any underlining,
but anyway, if you must mark that we need to find another way to do
that when writing vertically...why not use a color to mark the Proper
Name for your students? You can color signs, before creating the PDF in
the PDF feature...so you could make all Proper Names red or green or
whatever color you want!
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